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Publication • August 9, 2016
State of Injustice - How New York State Turns its Back on the Right to Counsel for the Poor, NYCLU, 2014 STATE OF INJUSTICE: How New York State Turns its Back on the Right to Counsel for the Poor “The amount of money someone makes should not determine how justice …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Not So Securus by by Jordan Smith and Micah Lee, The Intercept An enormous cache of phone records obtained by The Intercept reveals a major breach of security at Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside the nation’s prisons and jails. The materials – leaked via SecureDrop by an anonymous hacker who believes …
Securus Faces Lawsuit Over Recorded Attorney Calls by Alex Friedmann On May 27, 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Securus Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, accusing the company of recording privileged phone calls between prisoners and their attorneys as described in …
Criminal Defendants Shortchanged by Justice System that Favors Prosecutors by Derek Gilna Since the landmark Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963, criminal defendants who face incarceration have been guaranteed representation by an attorney if they cannot afford one. Gideon spurred most states and the federal government to …
Publication • August 2, 2016
Memo Appointing Gov. Nixon to Act as Public Defender, Missouri State Public Defender Office of the Director, 2016 MISSOURI STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR August 2, 2016 The Honorable Jay Nixon Governor of Missouri P.O. Box 720 Jefferson City, Missouri 65102 Dear Governor Nixon: Seven years ago, your …
Article • July 29, 2016
Award of Nominal Damages Negates Attorney Fee Awards by The Eleventh Circuit Court of appeals held that, under the circumstances before it, the award of attorney fees is improper to a party awarded only a nominal damage award. This was the fifth time this case was before the court.  At …
Tennessee Public Records Attorney Fee Award Excludes Pro Se Work by The Tennessee Court of Appeals at Jackson held a litigant is entitled to the award of attorney fees and costs under the Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA) if the defendant willfully refused to disclose the requested records.  The Court, …
America's Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors - How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty, Fair Punishment Project, 2015 FAIR PUNISHMENT PROJECT AMERICA’S TOP FIVE DEADLIEST PROSECUTORS: How Overzealous Personalities Drive The Death Penalty JUNE 2016 Last year, a journalist asked Dale Cox, then the District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, about …
Material Indifferent - How Courts are Impeding Fair Disclosure in Criminal Cases, NACDL, 2014 MAterIAl InDIFFerenCe: How Courts Are Impeding Fair Disclosure In Criminal Cases No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law Amendment V, U. S. Constitution KAtHleen “CooKIe ” rIDolFI …
Courts Divided on Confidentiality of Attorney-Prisoner Email by Derek Gilna The fact that prosecutors and corrections officials read emails between prisoners and their lawyers comes as no surprise to most defense attorneys, many of whom find it ironic that the very public officials paid to enforce the laws do not …
Dallas Conviction Integrity Unit Gains National Notoriety by Matthew Clarke The word “first” was applied to Craig M. Watkins multiple times after his election to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in 2006. He was the county’s first black D.A., the first D.A. who had been a public defender before …
Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016
California Jail Ordered to Restore Attorney-Client Contact Visits by Derek Gilna The Wayne Brown Correctional Facility in Nevada County, California changed its rules in 2013 to prohibit defense attorneys from having contact visits with their clients, allegedly due to security and cost concerns. Several prisoners filed suit, and a superior …
Brief • June 20, 2016
Georgia v. Allen, Transcript of Proceedings, Defendant's Motion to Fire His Assigned Attorney, 2016
Bronowicz v. Allegheny County, PA, Settlement and Release, 2016
Publication • 2016
St. Louis University School of Law - Importance of State Law in Police Reform, Goldman, 2016 No. 2016-11 Importance of State Law in Police Reform Roger Goldman Saint Louis University - School of Law May 17, 2016 Saint Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 60, No. 363, 2016 Electronic copy available …
Publication • 2016
Confronting Criminal Justice Debt, a Guide CONFRONTING CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEBT A GUIDE FOR LITIGATION NCLC® September 2016 NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER ® © Copyright 2016, National Consumer Law Center, Inc. All rights reserved. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Abby Shafroth is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center and focuses …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Filed under: Attorney, Pardons/Clemency
Pardon Attorney Leff Letter of Resignation, Office of the Pardon Attorney, January 31, 2016 A Y u.s. Department of Justice Office of the Pardon Attorney D Washingtoll, D.G. 20530 U SA The Honorable Sally Quillian Yates Deputy Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Wash ington, D.C. …
Brief • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Attorney, First Amendment
Cruz et al v. English Nanny and Governess School et al, OH, Amicus Brief - ACLU OH, extrajudicial attorney speech sanctions, 2016 NAILAH K. BYRD CUYAHOGA COUNTY CUERK OF COURTS 1200 Ontario Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Court of Appeals MOTION Electronically Filed: May 13, 2016 17:00 By: RAYMOND VASVARI 0055538 …
Brief • May 13, 2016
Filed under: Attorneys, First Amendment
Cruz et al v. English Nanny and Governess School et al, OH, Amicus Brief - First Amendment Lawyers Association, extrajudicial attorney speech sanctions, 2016 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO CHRISTINA CRUZ, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ENGLISH NANNY AND GOVERNESS SCHOOL, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Delaware Supreme Court Suspends Prosecutor for Misconduct by Christopher Zoukis On July 27, 2015, the Delaware Supreme Court suspended Deputy Attorney General R. David Favata for six months and a day, for prosecutorial misconduct involving the capital case of McCoy v. State, 112 A.3d 239 (Del. 2015). The case was …
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